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Blog I have felt rather guilty over the last few weeks for not keeping up with my space, Friends visit and wonder what has happened because of the lack off upates. I have tried to visit and reply to all those that have left comments but have still lacked the inspiration to do a blog.. lots has been going on but with the daylight hours now much extended and the weather being rather nice I have taken the opportunity to tidy up the garden and do other bits and pieces and by the time i have finished at the end of the day I just lack the energy to do anything else.
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Arriving home after taking the children ( Daughter & Grandchildren) to school on Thursday morning I did my usual check of the garden and pond, I usually feed the fish at this time, ...Disaster!!! there were my fish floundering in about 1 to 2" of water!!!, quite a few of them were laying motionless at the bottom of the pond and I thought that I had lost them. Damien, thats the Koi, who is almost 12" long was flapping about in the deepest part, I quickly grabbed a moulded plastic pond (which my eldest daughter had only given me back a couple of weeks ago) and started to fill it with water, lucky enough I have an outside hose fitted, then grabbed a net to transfer the fish.... Damien was first to be rescued as he seemed to be in the most distress then it was quickly back with the net to save as many as I could...They all survived!!! even the motionless fish, when touched with the net, started bouncing about over the pebbles which I have at the bottom of the pond to protect the vinyl liner. Turns out that I have 51 fish in all...that is including the 3 babies which were born last year and that I added back to the pond a few weeks ago. I have never been able to count them all in the pond as they just wouldn't stay still long enough...lol...
Anyway, I eventually discovered what had happened... turns out that the filter, which serves the waterfall, had blocked...Millie reminded me that this had happened a few years back, and it was then that I fitted a 'overflow return pipe'. This time the overflow pipe had come adrift and the pond water, nearly all 2100 litres of it, had pumped itself into the garden!!!! this time I hope I have fixed it properly!!.
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I guess it was too good an opportunity to miss, as the pond had been drained it might as well be cleaned...it was a good few years ago that that had been done... not the easiest of tasks as every pebble, rock, ornament and weed plant pot in the pond was covered in 'blanket weed', and it is not the easiest stuff to remove. The family all 'mucked' (very appropiate word) in with scrubbing brushes and scourers but it still took 2 days to finish cleaning them all off!!!
One Clean Pond
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Daughter Kes has applied to be a 'Peer Monitor' at her school for next term, I reckon, with her nature, she could very well have the right qualities for that sort of task.
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Grandson Danny had a football tornament this saturday and although they came 'top' of their group after winning 3 out of the 4 games they unfortunately failed to qualify on points for the semi finals... it was a great effort though, so congratulations to them.
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My son and I played in the 'Doubles dart board' pairs compitition play off's and got through to the finals but unfortunately lost 3-2.... there's always next year...lol...
The 'team 6's' knockouts are still ongoing and we seem to be doing quite well in that one... hopefully we can keep our winning streak going.
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One last thing before I go... I don't know if any of you remember a blog I wrote a few months back about our Government... I stated that if 'Nanny' kept smacking us we would eventually rebel big time... well, the British public done exactly that in the 'Crewe by election' overturning the Labour governments 7000 majority into a 7000 loss!!! The party I support ...( UKIP )... came in 4th but is slowly increasing it's vote year by year.
I will try my best to get round to visiting soon.
Best wishes LethargyI reckon I have been suffering from Lethargy for the past few weeks... This is normally a common symptom bought on by certain Governments (like the one we have in power at the moment)... I'm sure as soon as the cause is removed I will feel so much better!!!!.
My MSN Friend Jim sent me this E-Mail the other day.... Anyone tell me how it is done???? ( E-Mail )..... When the link appears click on the little boy in the bottom right hand corner for further instuctions.
Hope to be up to visiting soon.
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